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China’s Geely has wasted no time in expanding the production footprint and engineering work of its Swedish acquisition, Volvo. At the end of October, the company announced the creation of a new global automotive brand, Lynk & Co., that will be built in a joint venture production facility in Luqiao, 220 miles outside of Shanghai. Both 40 Series Volvos and Lynk & Co.’s offerings will be built at the plant on a shared Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) platform. Next, it announced that production of Volvo’s S90 will be shifted from Europe to its plant in Daqing in the future. Finally, existing and future versions of Volvo’s 60 Series vehicles, built on the same Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) as the S90 and XC90, will be built in Chengdu. Volvo also is in the process of building a plant in South Carolina to supply SPA-based vehicles to the U.S., Mexico and Canada.